title: The incidence of Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in a midwestern metropolitan county.
abstract: The incidence of H. influenzae meningitis in children under five years of age was monitored during the years 1983-87 by a retrospective study of records from all hospitals serving a metropolitan county in Kansas. The mean annual incidence rate for the five years studied was 26.0 per 100,000. This compares with a mean of 56.0 per 100,000 measured in the same county during 1979-82.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichtita.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Walling
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Kallail
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007615:Kansas / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008583:Meningitis, Haemophilus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012621:Seasons; D014505:Urban Population